"Longing, we say, because desire is full of……" — Robert Hass
"Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances."
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28 Quotes by Robert Hass
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A word is elegy to what it signifies.
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It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.
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Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly.
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One may prefer spring and summer to autumn and winter, but preference is hardly to the point. The earth turns,…
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Golf is a worrier's game, inward, concentrated, a matter of inches, invented by the same people who gave us Presbyterianism.
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It is good sometimes for poetry to disenchant us.
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Poetry is a fireplace in summer or a fan in winter.
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Justice is the well water of the city of/ Novgorod, black and sweet
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The birds are silent in the woods. / Just wait: soon enough / You will be quiet too
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All the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles all the old thinking
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I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going…
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The Earth forgives the previous year every year.
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More Desire Quotes
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one of 7,210 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be…
— Hannah Arendt
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
— Hannah Arendt
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over…
— Aristotle
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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All men by nature desire knowledge.
— Aristotle
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Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
— Aristotle
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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not…
— Aristotle
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Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
— Richard Bach
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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
— Neil Armstrong
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I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated…
— Chinua Achebe
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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric?…
— Saint Augustine
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
— Saint Augustine
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